I'm still finding the tracker mentioned up thread next to useless. Am I using it wrong? Where is the information on daily distance and total so far?

It's not you and this clearly would be why Ivan went to the trouble he did back at the start of 2015, the Spot is pretty meaningless on it's own. It was Ivan's tracker that calculated distance so far as the day progressed:http://audaxclubhackney.co.uk/tg.html

It's not you and this clearly would be why Ivan went to the trouble he did back at the start of 2015, the Spot is pretty meaningless on it's own. It was Ivan's tracker that calculated distance so far as the day progressed:http://audaxclubhackney.co.uk/tg.html

Sorry, I broke that when I moved to a new server, but as it took TG's feed from Trackleaders, not his direct spot feed, it wouldn't be any use now. Let me see if I can cook something up though.

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Another 244 miles from Steve yesterday taking him 97 miles ahead of his target.

Recognising that going for an official 30 day record with the required advanced notification is different to choosing one's 'best 30 days', it is instructive to look at how the riders' monthly distances have stacked up.

Below is the rolling 30 day total for Steve and Kurt in 2015, for Tommy and so far for Amanda. If Steve hits his target of 7000 miles he will be clearly riding further than he was during 2015 which is good news for any future attempt at the OYTT. It will be interesting to see how Amanda responds (if at all) in that she has been riding pretty close to 7000 miles anyway and could conceivably top that distance should she wish.

Would be great to know this (I haven't watched the video yet so if its in there - sorry)

I am 2 weeks into a Keto diet (mainly to support my partner who has been advised to drastically cut her sugar and carb intake on medical advice). I remember Steve talking about a struggle to adapt to a high fat diet on the year attempt. I am hoping he did eventually adjust with the current performance being the result. If it was not successful I be interested to know if he has changed diet drastically or if he is using some kind of carb cycling to fuel and recover from rides.

I saw mention the other day of him shunning his eggs in favour of his favourite chicken dinner ....that sounds like the diet has been continued and that it has been successful?

Thanks for that - I would say those photos very much suggest he is on some kind of Keto, High fat, low carb diet with slightly higher carbs than a normal keto diet would have (milk and oat cakes) added for cycling.... if so that is encouraging for me as it is very much what I am trying out.

Another 240 miler from Steve yesterday, with 1700m of climbing. Amanda did almost exactly the same distance - with a recorded 86m of climbing That indicates the level of TG's challenge, and that's riding in the flatlands.

Apologies if I've been woefully slack in keeping up with all this, but:

Is Steve's "Month record attempt" officially lodged with any validating authority? And has Amanda done the same? (given that she appears to be outdoing him in September, based on jo's main stats thread)

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